2023-2024 Perioperative Echocardiography Council Steering Committee
Chair: Sheela Pai Cole, MD, FASE (July 2023 – June 2025)
Chair-Elect: Douglas Shook, MD, FASE (July 2023 – June 2025)
Immediate Past Chair: G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE (July 2023 – June 2025)
ASE Council Representative: Keith Collins, MS, RDCS, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Education Committee Rep: Qiong Zhao, MD, PhD, FASE (July 2022- June 2024)
Guidelines & Standards Committee Rep: Himani Bhatt, MD, MPA, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Scientific Sessions Track Chair: Richard Sheu, MD, FASE (July 2023 – June 2024)
Scientific Sessions Track Co-Chair: Kiran Belani, MD, FASE (July 2023 – June 2024)
Member at Large: Kimberly Howard-Quijano, MD, MS, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Member at Large: Yasdet Maldonado, MD, MMM, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Member at Large: Zuyue Wang, MD, FASE (July 2022 – June 2024)
Member at Large: Abimbola Faloye, MD, FASE (July 2023 – June 2025)
Member at Large: Charles Nyman, MBBCH (July 2023 – June 2025)
Staff Liaison: Suzanne Morris
The ASE Perioperative Echocardiography Council (COPE) is dedicated to the following objectives:
- Support perioperative echocardiography interest areas by communicating issues of importance to the membership;
- Provide guidance to the Board regarding perioperative echocardiography issues;
- Provide a forum for members with similar interests to network;
- Provide a representative (council chairman) to ASE Board of Directors;
- To provide educational offerings for those practicing cardiovascular ultrasound for perioperative patients, including guidance to Scientific Sessions Program Committee
- To provide guidance on standards of care related to perioperative echocardiography to the Board and Guidelines and Standards Committee
2024 Scientific Sessions Travel Grants Application is Open. Learn more here!
Awards
The council has the following annual award:
- Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Echocardiography Award was awarded in June 2023 to Madhav Swaminathan, MD, MMCi, FASE, of Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, NC
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